SA's 2024 elections — noise everywhere, but not a good jobs debate to spare
While unemployment is the biggest long-term problem SA faces, there are dramatic differences in what political parties say they’ll do to solve it.
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While unemployment is the biggest long-term problem SA faces, there are dramatic differences in what political parties say they’ll do to solve it.
Amidst South Africa's mounting existential crises, unemployment stands as the gravest, fuelling societal ills.
The tectonic plates beneath our feet are shifting again. It is undeniable that this is a time of great uncertainty. Daily Maverick and an audience of 1,500 readers will get together in person for a full day on 14 March to talk South African elections 2024. It will be a momentous day. The tecton...
Data revealed that 752 000 out of 1.1 million pupils who were in Grade 1 in 2011, enrolled for the Grade 12 exams in 2022.
Opposition realignments and ruling party exits open up the field for next year's election, The resignation of Mavuso Msimang, deputy president of the African National Congress Veterans' League (ANCVL) and a respected lifelong activist, has widened cracks in the ruling party. It also points to a deepening generational divide within the ruling party's affiliates. ANC Youth League members have been lambasting the elders' 'conservatism' and its President Collen Malatji is demanding its members get a quota of 50% on the party's list of parliamentary candidates.